Classics

OLIVER TWIST Young Oliver Twist is an orphan who goes from one horrible situation to another. To escape a harsh life under cruel masters in a workhouse, Oli...

The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's first novel, completed as early as 1846. The central character is the reserved William Crimsworth, an English teacher ...

Among the most popular of Shakespeare's comedies, this enchanting play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love as it focuses upon the intertwined roman...

Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rocheste...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury Moby-Dick is the story of ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

The classic tale of vampirism, first published in 1897, follows the life and crimes of Count Dracula, a creature who seduces his victims and then pounces. O...

T.e. Lawrence ; With An Introduction By Angus Calder.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

The Adventures Of A Mischievous Young Boy And His Friends Growing Up In A Mississippi River Town In The Nineteenth Century.Categories: Literature & Fict...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen's immortal crea...

Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing...

A Young Woman Looks Back At Her Childhood In A Harsh Orphanage And Describes Her Growing Love For The Man Who Employs Her As GovernessCategories: Romance Hi...

A Retelling In Rhymed Couplets Of Shakespeare's Tragedy Of Ill-fated Young Lovers Is Accompanied By Illustrations From The Author's Second-grade Class.Categ...

This love story tells the tale of Heathcliff, the waif brought to Yorkshire by Mr. Earnshaw, and his passionate but doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.Categ...

A retelling, based on the film, of how Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, saves the beautiful gypsy dancer Esm...

Bronte's unforgettable story of romance and deception, now with an introduction by Meg CabotOrphaned in childhood and despised by the cruel aunt who is her ...

A full-color paperback edition of Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with full-colo...

Cervantes tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcin...

The Secret Garden: The Young Collector's Illustrated Classics/Ages 8-12 [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1995] Burnett, Frances Hodgson ...Categories: Literature & ...

IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and th...

Introduction by Madelon Bedell Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in ninetee...

n the original, Peter and his sisters are told to go gather blackberries and not to go into MacGregor's garden because Peter's father was made into a pie by...

Wilkie Collins. This Ed. Originally Published: 1996.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismHistory

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his repu...

Here is the triumphant story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, based on Disney's animated film. Quasimodo, the lonely, nisshapen bell ringer of Notre Dame ca...

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New EnglandCategories: Literature & Ficti...

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular...

Product Description Dupin est le roi de la déduction. Et quand il décide de mener l’enquête, c’est avant tout pour prouver que tout s’explique...

An introduction by Agnes Cardinal, Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financ...

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a picaresque, adventure-filled life story of a tenacious, smart, beautiful, and charismatic woman who aspires to be a lad...

A Scottish nobleman murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes tangled in a web o...

For generations, readers have enjoyed classic literature. They have delighted in the romance of Jane Austen, thrilled at the adventures of Jules Verne, and ...

Based on a true-life ordeal that Stephen Crane went through in 1897 when the ship he had boarded for Cuba sank off the Florida coast, "The Open Boat" tells ...

Beatrice is a timid, private, and restless young woman from an upper middle class Glasgow family. Her mother's death leaves her an orphan with no close rela...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s rousing seafaring classic.“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” For sheer storytelling deli...

On retient souvent de Gautier l'image d'un conteur chatoyant jouant avec une nonchalance sereine des prestiges du langage. Mais Baudelaire avait su deviner ...

Jack London became one of, and perhaps the most successful writer of the turn of the 20th century. Fifty-one of his books, innumerous articles and short st...

Erec And Enide -- Cligés -- Lancelot -- Yvain -- Perceval. Chrétien De Troyes ; Translated, With An Introduction And Notes, By D.d.r. Owen. Includes Bibli...

En La Memoria Colectiva De Los Pueblos Siempre Encontramos Que, De Una Manera O De Otra, Las Gentes Han Reflejado Su Historia En Canciones Y Poemas Transmit...

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban: Signature EditionCategories: Literature & FictionAction & Adventure

A man who loves to place bets acquires a remarkable frog, which he claims can out-jump any other frog in the county.Categories: Literature & FictionClas...

A desperate convict encountered in a graveyard . . . a reclusive spinster and her beautiful young ward . . . a mysterious legacy that transforms a rustic or...

He stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and in so doing became an undying symbol of virtue. But most important, Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men o...

The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Lang...

'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of advanc...

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XXe SIÈCLE Devenu, avec Le Désert des Tartares, un classique du XXe siècle, Le K ouvre un recueil de 50 contes fantastiques où l'...

A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory, in an adaptation of Stevenson's classic ...

Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to t...